On Efflorescent, Echoes Live 22, the best live performance on Echoes are gathered into a perfect 73-minute excursion. From Loreena McKennitt to Tommy Emmanuel, Jesse Cook to The Album Leaf, Efflorescent blossoms.
Swim into the Slow Flow on the next Echoes with music from Lemongrass and the early days of the New Age off the collection The Microcosm: Visionary Music of Continental Europe 1970-1986.
For many years, Swiss born musician Martin Tillman was the first call cellist for Hollywood film scores, especially if they wanted sounds that went beyond cello. He has a new album out called Superhuman.
Singer Agnes Obel has created an intimate and epic album of privacy, intimacy and secrets called Citizen of Glass. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month.
Things go bump, bloop, whirr and glurp in a six-hour Echoes Halloween stream at Echoes On-Line. Subscribe now for your Halloween soundscape.
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From Manchester England, Marconi Union is an electronic band that has been orchestrating melodic music since their first album in 2003. The three part band has just released a new album titled “Ghost Stations.”
On the next Echoes, Wax Tailor takes your head off with a new album of sliced and diced samples called By Any Beats Necessary. We’ll also hear a physician who is a singer.
Before synthesizers and computers in pop music there was Silver Apples, a duo that that used surplus electronics and tribal drums to create a psychedelic electronic pop in 1968. Moby cites them as the first electronic pop group.
Yoga Records label owner Douglas McGowan has set out to re-examine New Age music from its Indie, experimental roots. He talks about his compilations I Am the Center and The Microcosm on Echoes.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.